Cemeteries

Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its
graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built
after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in 1898, and we understand it is still open.

The Methodist Church in Castleton was built originally for a Wesleyan Methodist congregation, but from 1933 has belonged to the Methodist Church of Great Britain. The building is recorded in Kelly's Directory of 1932 as erected in 1898, and having 250 sittings. It replaced an earlier chapel founded in 1809 - details of this Wesleyan Chapel (19thC) may be found elsewhere in this database.

The following notice in The London Gazette of 11th August 1903 (p.5094) recorded its registration for marriages:

A Separate Building, duly certified for religious worship, named WESLEYAN CHAPEL, situated at Castleton, in the civil parish of Castleton, in the county of Derby, in Chapel-en-le-Frith registration district, was, on the 6th August, 1903, registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to 6th and 7th Wm. IV, c.85. Dated 7th August 1903.

Its congregation was joined in 1933 by that of the
Castleton Primitive Methodist Chapel in How Lane, and presumably remains registered for marriages in the present day. For further details, and a fuller account of the Chapel's History see the Castleton Village website.

Denomination

Now or formerly Wesleyan Methodist.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here,
or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this
will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Church is located at OS grid reference SK1482082960. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Resources

I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for
this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special
interest for Castleton, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

Notices of Civil Registration of Places of Worship for marriages are
published in the London edition of The Gazette.
Hint: search for registrations from 1998 by choosing 'Church' notices, and the option 'Registration for solemnising marriage'.
(verified 2018-12-11)

The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information,
but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely.
These factors are outside my control.

You can specify either a Place, or OS Grid Reference to
search for. When you specify a Place, only entries for that place
will be returned, with Places of Worship listed in alphabetical
order. If you specify a Grid Reference, Places of Worship in the
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You can further refine your search by supplying other search terms.

You can specify entries with ('Yes') or without ('No') photographs.

You can specify a church or chapel's Dedication, to restrict entries to
those containing the term you supply as a dedication. So for instance, 'John'
would return 'St John', 'St Mary and St John', 'St John the Divine' &c.

You can specify a Street address, and likewise 'George' will return
George Place, St George's Street, George and Dragon, &c.

You can restrict the search to classes of Denomination. The exact denomination
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can search for 'Methodist', but not 'Wesleyan Methodist' or 'Primitive Methodist'.
'Multi-denominational' includes Ecumenical Partnerships, and
'Miscellaneous' means anything not covered by other broad classes.

Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in
the Derbyshire section of the Places of Worship
Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only.
For other counties, or for a full search of the Database, you might
like to try the site's
Google Custom Search, which includes full webpage content.

Further Information

This site provides historical information about churches, other places
of worship and cemeteries. It has no affiliation with the churches or
congregations themselves, nor is it intended to provide a means to find
places of worship in the present day.

Please also remember that whilst the above account may suggest
that Castleton Methodist Church remains open and accessible, this may not remain so.